Inquiry in Individuals and Society

Catalog description

Fall, Spring. This course is specifically designed to facilitate student achievement of inquiry skills and learning outcomes through active learning pedagogues that explore current issues related to risk behaviors and how they impact individuals, society, and different disciplines. Emphasis will be placed on adverse behavioral and health risks, as well as positive aspects of taking risks. Special attention is devoted to utilization of social science methods of inquiry in examining these risks such as the case study, causal models, relative risk, evaluation, related analytic paradigms and systems methodologies.